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APUSH AMSCO Chapter 1 Summary &Notes
How Native Americans got to the Americas – correct answer*migrants from Asia
crossed a land bridge that once connect Siberia and Alaska in Bering Sea,
migrated south from Arctic Circle to South America
3 highly developed civilizations - correct answer Mayans, Aztecs, Incas
Mayan Civilization (300-800 AD) - correct answer *remarkable cities in rain forests of
Yucatan Peninsula (present-day Guatemala, Belize, southern Mexico)
*cultivated corn/maize
Aztec Empire - correct answer *powerful empire in central Mexico
*Capital in Tenochtitlan
*population ~200k
*planted corn/maize
(200 yrs after decline of Mayan Empire)
Inca Empire - correct answer *Peru/Andes Mnt (South America)
*cultivated da potato
,similarities between Mayas, Incas, Aztecs - correct answer *highly organized (and large)
societies
*extensive trade
*created accurate & scientific calendars
*planted crops
the significant difference between Central/South American and North American Native
America Tribes - correct answer North American Native Americans were
smaller/separate tribes (as opposed to a big empire),
*less sophisticated
Similarities between Central/South American and North American Tribes - correct
answer established farming systems, language
similarities between North American native cultures - *semi-permanent settlements in
small groups
*men: made tools, hunted game
*women: gathered plants/nuts or grew crops like corn/maize, beans, tobacco
*animism
language of Native Americans - correct answer very diverse, more than 20 language
families & 400 distinct languages
, *larges are Algoquian of Northeast, Siouan in Great Plains, Athabaskan in Southwest
Relationship between resource availability and cultural lifestyle (in general) - correct
answer *great concentration of resources also created rigidly stratified class structures
throughout the West
*In areas with sparse natural resources, groups were more nomadic and less connected
to others.
Southwest Settlements (present day New Mexico & Arizona) - correct answer *groups
like Hokokam, Anasazi, Pueblos
*farming with irrigation systems (corn; irrigation allowed Pueblos to plant beans and
squash in addition to corn)
*lived in caves, under cliffs, multistoried buildings
*stone/masonary homes
*drought between 1200-1300 disastrous, caused ancestral Pueblos to flee area
Northwest Settlements (present day Alaska-northern California) - * correct answer
Pacific Coast
*permanent longhouses/plank houses
*hunting, fishing; gathering nuts (acorns to make into flower!!!)/berries/roots
*get da salmon
*used totem poles to save stories, legends, myths
*generally identified with family-based bands called tribelets
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